Development, Industry, and Resources

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Thursday, April 11

Chapter 11: Industrial and Manufacturing
  • Focus of discussion will be on Chapter 11; however, read/review chapter summary and quiz for Chapter 9: Development.

Think/Pair/Share

Question 1: What do you think sustainable development means?
Question 2: Should aid be given?
  • What is the purpose or point to providing economic aid to impoverished countries? Whose responsibility is it to provide aid?
Question 3: Should countries of the world be categorized by the evolution of their economic activities? What are the implications of this kind of categorization?
  • More Developed Countries (MDC's), Less Developed Countries (LDC's), and Newly Industrializing Countries
  • How else might the countries of the world be classified and categorized?
Question 4: What factors indicate the economic development level of a country? Brainstorm a list of factors that indicate a country's economic level.

ASSIGNMENT: Read/review chapter summary and quiz for Chapter 9: Development (due Monday).

Friday, April 15 - Global Youth Service Day

  • ISA students will be in the community doing service.
  • ASSIGNMENT: Begin Reading Chapter 11: Key Issue # 1 & 2

Monday, April 18

Sustainable Development? (Video)

Jeffrey Sachs on Beating Global Poverty (Article) (457 words)

  • What does Sachs mean when he says that helping to rid extreme poverty will help with US long-term security?
  • Do you agree with that idea that more technology will help pull countries out of poverty? Why or why not?
  • If the solutions to extreme poverty are plausible, why don't the wealthiest countries in the world do more? What's stopping them?


Tuesday, April 19 - Thursday, April 21

Central Question(s):

  • What determines the rate, type, and ability of a country to industrialize? Does a country have to be industrialized to be developed?
  • Is the goal of most countries to become industrialized and developed? If so, where do countries in Asia stand? In particular, China and India?

Economic Theories:
Chapter 10 Industry.pptx


Use your original presentation notes from the beginning of the course, adding to them as we review the theories.
Predict:

Hans Rosling describes the rise of Chinese and Indian economies. What do you think he will describe as the greatest factors propelling their economies? (What are they doing right? What are the outcomes?)


Respond:

What does Hans Rosling say are the greatest obstacles to Chinese and Indian comprehensive development?



HOMEWORK:

From the following options, choose two (2) complete prompts (all parts of each prompt) to respond to and turn them in on Monday, April 25 (*4th Period: Friday, April 27).

*4th Period: Submit Google document through the following spreadsheet.

Options: